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There is a category of historical decision that turns out correct for reasons nobody involved understood, and this is the clearest example in the history of public works.
A…
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Technologies are usually lost for identifiable reasons. A market disappears, a cheaper substitute arrives, a war interrupts a supply chain, or the last people who knew a process die…
Everybody who has been somewhere completely dark reports the same surprise: the sky is bright.
Not bright like daylight, but visibly not black. There is enough light to see the…
The whole subject rests on one transformation: heat driving water out of the clay structure in a way that cannot be undone. Here are sixteen consequences.
1. Clay Works Because…
The whole subject is fluid control. Too little and nothing appears; too much and it blots; and the difference between the two is a matter of fractions of a drop.…
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There is a grim regularity to the history of libraries. They accumulate for generations, they hold material that exists nowhere else, and then something happens to them — and…